• As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

  Ezra Pound
  American poet 1885-1972
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. but-not-altogether-satisfactory
2. cooling
3. passion
4. praised
5. gives
6. tepid

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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady. by : Ezra Pound

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